whatever

Rose - These are gorgeous rooms.

Mister Steamy - Interesting post regarding the laundry room. Even though it may be difficult to keep it clutter-free, the examples given would give any stay-at-home mother the willingness to strive towards that level of neatness.

Christa aka the BabbyMama - Hee, at least you have a laundry room! Our laundry area is a corner of the unfinished half of a my basement, a bit too close to the catbox corner for my particular tastes.

kristin - Um, I live in AZ and our laundry room is in our garage. boo.. there’s no way it will ever look pretty! But love the inspiration you posted!!

Sheryl - Man! I was agreeing with all of things you are wishing for…then I had to agree with Craig! Men….

Natalie Anthony - I only have 2 kids so far – one on the way- but laundry is a bad bad situation at my house. I’ve decided the only way I’d ever be on top of laundry is if I had a washer/dryer right next to where we spend most of our time- the kitchen, or living room? one day…

susan - drool worthy! but at least we have a laundry room, right?

deborah@applesinwonderland - those are almost too lovely to do laundry in….maybe a little chaise for napping and reading instead. i might forget about the grass stains and wet stinky towels with a room like that. aw….if it makes you feel any better i have a craig too. i call him big red. 🙂

Janelle - I too dream of such a lovely laundry room. My washer & dryer are in our garage – where the ceiling is starting to crumble, so sometimes we have rusty re-bar (sp??) and concrete fall on top of them. And during heavy rains? It pours in from the ceiling and leaves huge puddles we have to wade through – and if we don’t get it shopvac’d up quick enough, mosquitoes lay eggs in the water and we get to wade through that too. Again, still better than most people around the world. I’m going on a trip to Haiti next month, so I’m sure my perspective will be put in check on quite a few of these things!!

Shelley - Oh my… I dream of those same rooms… and maybe a maid to keep feeding the washer dirty clothes. (-:

Jess - I totally feel your pain! I love my home but for whatever reason my laundry room is LITERALLY the hallway! I don’t know what they were thinking when they built the house and more importantly, I don’t know what I was thinking when we bought the house!
Who knew a laundry room would be the object of all of my affection?!

Lisa - I’m only able to drop by here on occasion as life with 5 children ages 5 and under keeps me running – but this post brought much needed smiles today! I think I have just about every one of the images you posted saved on my computer – I saved them all earlier in the week as I had 20 loads of laundry due to a leaking washer! I wasn’t about to take a 5 week old to the laundromat – let alone all the others! I was just so giddy that someone else is dreaming of a laundry room… I even drew mine out and asked my husband if we could put our house on the market soon – so we could have a huge laundry room and a “family closet” … Read the Duggar book to find out more on their family closet – you’ll be inspired…
Love this! Thanks so much! One day I’ll get myself one of those cute hats from a post a couple days back… That would help the laundry room woes, right? 🙂 Smiles to you!

Stephanie - I love that you posted a “real” picture of your laundry room. Sometimes people post pictures of rooms in their house that look as if they were arranged for the picture so they would look messy-neat. I actually believe that your laundry room looks like the picture and I love it! It makes me feel normal. So thanks. 🙂

jennifer delossantos - I dream of having a laundry room too. One where we could just put dressers and clothes racks and just keep everything in there even after it was clean. Reality is our laundry room is a closet. It was either that or put it in the basement which is really more of a cellar. When the drier door is down, it is touching the wall. That’s how tight it is in there. But I guess we are lucky just to have one at all!

Robin - Thanks for sharing your pic of your laundry room! It sooo made me laugh! You are very brave for sharing that photo…mine looks exactly the same and I wouldn’t dream of letting people see it! HaHa!!! I am fortunate enough to have a laundry room…one that I decorated when we loved in to our home…one that used to be a porch and is enclosed with all windows with lots of natural light…one that is fairly large with room to move around…and one that STILL LOOKS LIKE YOURS! There is just more room to throw clothes around and leave piles in baskets! I HATE LAUNDRY..but I am thankful for my room, my machines and the clothing which piles up!!!

Jodi - I began cleaning my laundry room today… didn’t get very far…

Sugar Mama - No matter how many coordinating bins, beautiful shelves, or freshly painted cabinets I had… my laundry room would still have mounds of clothing, tacky detergent stains, and lint dust.
It’s not a place I every plan to spend tons of time. I get in and out as quickly as possible.

amy nicholl - I am drooling. My laundry room is in the basement and I just explained to my husband how we are going to tackle the area to make it beautiful…he agreed after seeing the pics you posted. 🙂

nora - Jeez, Craig is such a Debbie Downer! 🙂

Keri - I linked to you today! Hope you are having a great Saturday! http://keriandbrian.blogspot.com/2010/11/pretty-pictures.html

Shivaun - I love your blog!!!!!!!
This made me laugh out loud!!!!!! The conversation is so real. I could relate! I’m off to do laundry for my family of 9…

jennifer - I dream about them too! Mine is so small! We’re hoping to buy a front loader washer and dryer to stack on top to clear up some more necessary space. I can’t wait until that day! (Can I still want/ dream of that space and feel bad for Africa at the same time? I really know I am blessed… just want a neat laundry room really bad! :o) )

sarah - I’d kinda like your room too. Mine are shoved out in the garage. I wedge myself between the car and machines. Summer laundry here in AZ is brutal out there. I think I just figured out why I never have the laundry done. Do you think people with those swanky rooms always do their laundry. And does the room stay that pretty?
But, I’m still blessed. Running water and a machine that I load and leave. Plus, I have clothes to put in it. Very, very blessed.

eryn - I looove that last one, too! I do have laundry room, I’ll admit, a little nicer than yours, but no dream laundry room. It also has no heat 🙂 I have a lovely bucket of robin’s egg blue paint, even, waiting to cover it’s walls. but, I have not done it.
I was getting ready to dive into my day of laundry, when I saw your post on FB. It helped me get ready to dive in, at least we can dream of lovely laundry rooms (that are empty of laundry) while we heft our loads off the floor today!

TRACI - Craig is a wise man!!! I don’t even live in Africa and I would take your laundry room. I should send you one of mine and you would give yours a hug. Mine is in the garage with BUGS, toads and whatever finds its way in….most of the time it’s so cold we are having to put a little heater out there just so we CAN do laundry and not freeze to death. Be grateful Meg, you have MUCH!!!

Penny - When our dryer broke and we had to run five loads of clothes to the laundromat I really appreciated my basement laundry “area”. While at the laundromat I did not think ahead and loaded all the dryers up (five of them) and put in my money and sat to read my book. Well, they all stopped within a minute. I felt like Lucille Ball on the candy assembly line. How do you fold five loads at the same time! So I loaded another quarter in each a couple minutes apart, so they wouldn’t get wrinkled! Live and learn. This made me really appreciate what I have at home. But we can dream!

Rebekah - My laundry “room” is a 3×5′ closet in our downstairs bathroom. Laundry day (or, ahem, DAYS) means piles of dirty clothes lining the wall in our foyer. The mythical dream house my husband and I sometimes talk about has a gorgeous, sun-washed laundry room with a designated crafting space. Someday, maybe. Until then, I’m thankful not to have to wash our clothes on a rock down by the river.

Dawn G - Wow. Those laundry rooms are nicer than my living room! I too love looking at laundry rooms – mine is the washer and dryer in the basement. The end!
It’s fun to dream!

Sonia - my laundry room is small. but i did paint it purple! that makes me happy.

carols - All gorgeous pics, but none of them have any LAUNDRY in them!? Wow, with five kids it really does multiply, doesn’t it? I picked up more hours working part-time and hubby agreed to takeover the laundry. We have baskets of clean clothes all over since he doesn’t put away (and our boys haven’t figured that out yet), but gotta say, in the big scheme of things, we are not slaves to laundry and can’t be judged by our piles! Have a glorious weekend and Happy Thanksgiving!

Sandy - Do people really have laundry rooms like that?! Mine looks like yours.
When I saw that last picture I thought maybe you were going to tell us you did remodel because it looked so much like you with the map and floral curtain under the cabinet (or is it a sink?). 🙂 You’ll get to remodel and then you can donate your leftovers for crafts in Africa.

PaisleyJade - haha – sounds like exactly what my husband would tell me! Our laundry is in our kitchen (and both are old and need to be renovated). It’s especially cool when the dryer is going and I use the microwave and then the power overloads and shuts off!
Loving those photos – inspiring!

Jess Mead - Yay! Now I don’t feel so bad. Mine looks the same. Laundry is one thing that never ever ever ever ends! Thank goodness for a door to hide the mess!

se7en - People in Africa may love your laundry room, I wouldn’t – just saying!!!… but no one in Africa would like your laundry pile, well unless what you wash you can keep… but otherwise it’s all yours!!! Have a fun weekend!!!!

McCall - I don’t have a laundry room. We have stacked machines in a closet. Even a hamper on the floor means you can’t shut the door. When I’m trying to make the house clean but the laundry is over-due (which is always,) I throw all the dirties in the guest bathroom’s tub. I call it “the tub of denial.” It’s pretty much ALWAYS full. I would love one of those big beautiful rooms too… And then a maid to do the laundry anyway. =)

Kori - Ugh. The laundry room. Mine is in the kitchen, behind doors and off to the side, but still. When I sort everything, I end up with dirty clothes what feels like everywhere. It feels unsanitary to have dirty undies in such close vicinity to the kitchen, you know?? 😉 I grumble more than once when I have to traverse Mount Laundry to get to the pantry or the back door, but I know I shouldn’t complain though because Craig is right on.

Kristin - Oh I love them all, but the last one is my favorite too. 🙂 I feel you, we remodeled the main part of our basement this summer and the last part is the super dingy laundry/utility room. I am hoping my Hubby gives the go ahead next spring for that to happen too. 🙂

Sophie - Those are gorgeous laundry rooms to dream over. Dreams are good too!

Jen H. - That last laundry room you love so much actually belongs to my friend Sarah, my former coworker at Cdn. House & Home mag. I’ve been telling her for years that if she ever wants to get rid of that map, I will buy it. Here’s her website: http://www.sarahhartill.com
And the rest of her house you can see here, as it was shown on Design*Sponge:
http://www.sarahhartill.com/2009/04/canadian-sneak-peek-home-of-sarah.html

Melissa's Heart and Home - Come say Hi! “melissasheartandhome.blogspot.com”

Melanie - I love my laundry room. I linked it up at Kellys Korner. 🙂

Nicole Q. - Now you have me dreaming of an amazing laundry room . . . one thing was missing in all those pictures . . . clothes all over the floor!! Those fresh flowers would SO be in the way. They’d be knocked over for sure.

Maria - ok, who let you in my laundry room (that first pic!)…glad I’m not the only one…although I have a laundry GARAGE which is not good at all…way to much room for stuff to pile up!
Someday…

Angie Parks - My laundry room looks just like yours.seems like i will never get done. Those rooms are beautiful. I would love one of those.

Courtney - I take that back – I think all of those are bigger than my kitchen. lol
I day dream about bathrooms if it makes you feel any better. 😉

Grandma Jacque - It really is hard to keep one’s perspective. Without my husband to remind me now, I framed two pictures a friend took in Africa of women washing in a stream and drying clothes on bushes – plus a minature washboard that says “give thanks” and hung them in my laundry room. I once had five children too and laundry that looked just like yours. Now they are grown and I have to scrounge to get a load together. (: Hang in there.

Lori - aack! I’ve been on the edge of my seat since TUESDAY waiting to hear more about being whisked off to Atlanta. And now you’re talking about laundry??? Although I have to admit, I’m drooling over those laundry rooms too…

Tanya - Craig is so wise but seriously, those laundry rooms are just photos. No room is that clean.

apirl - husbands are great that way huh….always bursting the bubble..lols…thats funny!!!

Lisa - I dream of laundry rooms too, my house now doesn’t even have one, they are in the garage. My last house had a huge one, but that was the only thing that it really had going for it, so I sacrificed the laundry room for a bigger house w/ more character. The pictures you posted are gorgeous!!

Kat - Agh! No, stop! The wood is/was beautiful! It looks vintage and not crappy 1980’s vintage. It sounds like you will be very happy with your white. And our spaces should always make us happy. But I’ll be crying a little for the natural woodwork.

Heather - I love old houses…especially ones with all white painted trim! I got giddy for you. It will look fabulous.

katie - the same theory applies to painting brick and neutering dogs.

Kim - I forgot to say that all the doors in the house are oak as well. Truly just depressing how much oak there is in my house.

ashley - I immediately laughed at the screen when I saw what you were doing. I was like, “Yeah, let’s hope the hubby doesn’t walk behind and see THIS one.” I wish we were “white paint” people, too.

thepaper-rose - LOVE IT! We live in a house that is about 100 years old…..had beautiful woodwork and lots of it. Lots of built ins….about 5 years ago I decided to paint all of it…..you are right…..all of our male friends about had heart attacks…I have never, ever regretted it. It lightened everything…whenever I look at old pictures I cannot believe that I waited so long. It was very overwhelming when I started. I focused on one wall at a time instead of rooms…..only way I could do it! So, you go girl!!!

tasha roe - love painted wood! and it is so true with me and natural wood. i think its only for floors but that’s me. i got all excited when i saw that paint brush. hope the dining room is coming a long nicely!! cant wait to see photos.

nope - i can tell most of the posters here are ladies…boooo! down with the white!
i felt like i had a little heart attack with that photo

Christa - We could have original wood window frames (they’re there under the paint), but they don’t work with anything in my house. If you have really traditional decor/archit./colors it’s great, but if your stuff is at all modern or cute, the bare wood looks pretty weird.

stljoie - We have all the original wood downstairs, including the kitchen which I love….upstairs we have walnut veneer doors with the frames painted white….That was original to the house and that’s the way I’ve kept it. An addition is completely painted in 3 shades of a very light green/aqua…like copper patina. Enjoy your adventure, I’m sure you will love it.

Staci Danford - Yes.. my husband would die.. BUT he fusses while I too paint all my woodwork white.. I just can hardly look at it any other color.. Can’t wait to see it finished..
Staci

Jenn - ha ha! I did cringe! But only because I knew that if I even attempted something like that I would be banned from my own home. I think it will look gorgeous – I LOVE white trim 🙂

jody - love it! white trim reflects natural light so much better. yes, the wood is lovely, like the original oak in our home…but I continue to paint it. so much brighter and happier.

Allison - oh honey, the sight of white paint sliding over ANY color makes me feel soooo happy. I too am obsessed with white. For years my husband made fun of me. Now, he too totally gets that white makes a home feel cheerful..and a great backdrop to COLORS!!

Leigh - I confess: painted wood makes me cringe. But then, I’m a carpenter’s daughter.

Amanda - I DEFINITELY prefer white over wood!

Michelle - It freaked me out to see that. . . but now i kinda want to do it at my house! We live in an old home too and all the woodwork in the house except for the living room and dinning room was painted before we moved in and I love those rooms. . . but i don’t think this is a battle i will win with the mister. . . . i will just live through you!

jeanne - You are a brave girl. I like white too…but I would have a hard time actually painting over that beautiful wood. I will just buy your house when you have done all the work.

Lindsay - while i also think that painted wood can bring out the best in SOME wood, when I saw that brush near those beautiful windows I gave a brief scream too! And I couldn’t show my husband- he feels the same. We can totally agree to paint certain woods, manufactured wood, etc., when it comes to original hardwood we can’t do it! Fortunately we live in a 60s house with NO character :), so we have been able to do what we please and not have to ‘ruin’ anything. Though I do ADORE your house so much anyway.

Janie Fox - Love it! I did it and have never regretted it! Can’t wait to see the finished project.

Musings Of A Gem - Heehee…i love the white..very bright!
Gemma X http://musings-of-a-gem.blogspot.com/

sixty fifth avenue - Yes!!! I love old houses with big juicy white trim! Nothing better! If we were friends, I would be there helping…so fun.

Heather - I love it!! I know what you mean about the paint-or-no-paint gender divide though. My husband is strangely okay with painting wood, but my dad is adamantly against it, even if it’s dark and grainy and terrible. 🙂

Lanny Stanard - I love it… paint it girl frieeeend !
hugs!

Whitney R - Will you bring that paint brush to my house? Please! I live in a 1930s home that had most of its trim painted when we moved in with crisp lovely white, but my Living Room my sweet hubbie won’t let me touch, “Sigh”
I can’t wait to see your results! Maybe it will help convincing my man!
Whitney R.

Alan Handley - You are making a huge mistake! Natural wood rocks! Painted wood screams fad! Turn back turn back now!!!!!

kat - Love it! We recently painted the kitchen cabinets and all the trimwork and doors downstairs, and it looks a million times better! We love it! Now, if we can just decide what to do with our playroom/library… it is ALL wood.

rosemarie - i grew up in a home that was over 100 years old and yes the wood work and molding(trim) was painted. the wood work in the home was beautiful and painting the molding white or off white (tasteful) always made the house look elegant and current. not painting some old houses make them old and drab..you are right. paint makes molding cheery and new.

Lisa - I’m going to have to go lay down now to lower my blood pressure 😉 Actually the woodwork in our house is painted white (because it had already been painted when we bought it, we just freshened it up) and I really love it. You’re right, it looks clean and crisp. That said, if it hadn’t already been painted, I would NEVER have painted it. I have serious wood envy when I go to an old bungalow that has the original woodwork. My dad is a woodworker and I have just always loved natural finish. To each his own! Can’t wait to see pictures!

Tanya - can’t wait to see the finished result

Jessica - I think it depends on the house, you and Craig are the ones who live in that house, you two know the feel of the house and you two already have done a fabulous job with the kitchen. I believe you two will do a fabulous job painting the woodwork white.
Some houses have gorgeous woodwork that should stay brown, others you can get away with painting the woodwork white.
Have fun painting!

Micah - We’re all about white in our house too. Go for it! Brighter is ALWAYS better.

grey umbrella - it makes my heart go pitter patter … i LOVE white and love when the grain shows through a little. that old/new look. can’t wait to see it all done!

Flower Patch Farmgirl - LOVE!!! You will never regret it. I don’t get the whole “natural wood” allure. No one screams about painting a “natural wall”!

Staci - Cannot WAIT to see the end product!!!! Love it that you are so sure and brave 🙂 I need a little of that 😉

Sarah@Clover Lane - I LOVE LOVE LOVE it!
I could never live in a house without white woodwork.
Can’t wait to see it.

Laura Phelps - I do that too.
The “we are even”
But most days, I think we are not even.
I think I win.
Or is it that I lose?
Can’t wait to see your dining room…to REALLY SEE IT..AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!
(Belle is excited to meet Waffle….)

Nina Diane - I can’t wait to see the finished room. Are you using high gloss or semi? I want to paint our wood but am afraid….

Annie - I’m a white trim girl all the way! Love the windows in your home! Gorgeous!

julia - you are so right – it is a guy thing!

Mandy - I am giving you a standing ovation! 🙂

jennifer - Love the white! Wouldn’t have my trim any other way…
And yeah for husbands that do the painting! Not that I have one, but mine’s a keeper anyway. 🙂

Julie - White woodwork: my fave.
Painting woodwork white: not my fave.
It is going to be gorgeous!!!
The wood lovers can deal.
They can go hug trees and get over it.

Esther Harper - Sorry Meg…big no,no. This wood if you were to give a light sand and put some light sealer it would have looked amazing. Its kind of like discovering you have beautiful hardwood floors under a ragy carpet and re-carperting it. But again we are high end custom home builders and our customers pay us alot of $$$$ to get the look of natural wood. Enough said but if you like it go for it.

Jen Joy - I’m totally applauding over here! 😀 Long live white painted trim!

Ana - Meg, it makes me feel like “YAAAAAY!!!!” Seriously, every time I walk into a house with natural wood trim I always think “why aren’t these people painting all this WHITE??”. I think white with a nice contrasting wall color just looks so SHARP! Congratulations on such a wise decision. LOVE IT!

Deputy's Wife - I am lucky. My house has a combination of white and stained woodwork. A good thing, because I love them both. Our downstairs is all stained original woodwork. The upstairs was painted when we moved in, so I repainted it all white.
While I do love the white trim (I think it is going to look fabulous) I don’t think I can bring myself to paint stained wood. I think it is because my dad restored antique furniture for a living. I would be afraid what he would do if he saw me paint wood!
Can’t wait to see it!

Tara @ the cinnamon post - ooohhh…i’m going to be doing the same thing soon in my living/dining room. bring it on. the only thing keeping me from painting all our trim is time and money!!
~
Tara

Ally - White is timeless. It’ll never go out. I fully intend to do this in our next house, which we will hopefully settle down in. I can’t bring myself to do all that work here, when we’ll be moving in a few years. Hope you share the results!

Sarah @ Dream In Domestic - It scares me, but I know I would do the same thing!

Steph - I spent many summers stripping paint off… getting down to the “real” wood… and so I’m sorry, but I disagree! I was screaming at the computer screen, I couldn’t believe what was going on… I’m a “real wood” “keep it natural” kinda girl! So yes, painting over that fabulous wood… saddens me. 🙁

Mary Beth - YOU GAVE BIRTH.
You will NEVER be even.
You WIN!!!
heeeeheaaaaaaa

Kristin - Oh I love the white! I have and will paint any wood trim white. 😉

Alyssa - Just wanted to send you some LOVE this morning….Love you Meg!!
I know I am a random stranger but I love your blog, your family, your wood being painted white…..
Love ya!
Alyssa

RLG - White is fresh and modern. In an older home –LOVE it!
Cannot wait to see the finished product. xoxo

chris - It makes me so excited , it will brighten up and liven up the room , so looking forward to seeing it ,
BTW my husband and got a real kick out of those picture Annie drew , they are technically good too and funny.

Anna Marie - You are SOOOO very right! My husband would have a conniption fit if I even suggested painting wood trim white. But I adore it and love it. It makes the room so much prettier and happier. You RARELY see unpainted wood in PB magazines 😉

jack - White is right!

jody - Meg…I’m dying!! I had a good laugh at your post. We just bought a ranch w dark trim & we’ve painted the house white now I want white trim EVERYWHERE!!
The battle continues between hub & I….of course, he wants to keep it dark! (or not do the work??…)
Convincing continues on….

Courtney Walsh - I would LOVE to have all white wood. I don’t paint it because it’s so much work. Will you do all your rooms this way (or are they already all white? I forget…)

Lacy Brauner - the wood was good in the ’70’s!! haha! Fed the tribe? Love that, I call mine monkeys or crazy people..but tribe is so much more polite! haha I think men see the carpentry and think the wood in its original state is artistic or something..but that just wrong!

donna - I love it , not screaming at all but cheering you on. I also redid all the moulding in my house last year! Think it was the most maddening job of all. So time consuming but well worth it. I only wish that I could have replaced it all with new instead of paint but the money tree said No! <3 Donna

dori - yes, everything white! cant wait to see the finish results!

Nicole Q. - No doubt it will look awesome!!! I think you got the hard part of the job!!

Kasey - I love white trim and white wood. It makes the room brighter, crisp and ‘summery’.

Cassie - i will admit it, my heart stopped for a moment. i might have screamed “NOOOOOOO!!!!”, too.
i think it’s because i have stripped more woodwork in my life than i care to remember and it was awful.
but i am certain the white will look fabulous! 🙂

Beth - white, white, white! makes everything feel clean & fresh. i painted over our solid oak cabinets 5 years ago,and was met with much disdain. even from women. they were meant to be white. god sent me a man who agrees. yipee! it will loook fantastic when it’s done!

Michelle - Ha! Dave and I argue about this and painting the fireplace bricks more than anything! Why is that such a guy thing?

Randolph Coleson - Over 200 years old? Wow. One can imagine the limitations of a home that old, but when you’ve good the skills and imagination as your back-ups, you can have a ton of fun in a home like that. Preserving the place, making improvements upon it, or keeping the house standing and alive are all cool projects to do…

ann - Ahhh, old homes. The old plaster ceiling in one of my bedrooms cracked and FELL down. What a mess!!! At least no one was sleeping in the bed that it fell onto at the time. I don’t think that’s a dead bird…it’s a piece of dirty wood, isn’t it?

Kelly - 🙂 I forgot about that movie!
http://www.kellyloves.wordpress.com

Annette - love that movie! that was on tv just a couple days after we bought our house, we joked it was us! Our house is 80 years old, love it! however projects are never as simple as they seem!

Gemma - That movie looks hilarious! Sorry to here there is more work to be done than expected…atleast it won’t ever be as bad as that film! : )
Gemma X

Kate @ Songs Kate Sang - One of my favorite quotes:
Water Fielding: Do you know how hard it is to find a really good carpenter? Besides, I think he’s got a brother who’s a plumber!
Anna Crowley: Really? A brother who’s a plumber?
Water Fielding: I think so.
Anna Crowley: Do you think I should sleep with him?
Water Fielding: Maybe just this once.

Brooke Whitis - I live in a really beautiful money pit too. Really pretty on the outside….rodents on the inside of the walls….

Lisa - SERIOUSLY!! Our house is 103 this year and we have a joke that every “project” ends up taking twice as long and twice as much money as anticipated.

Sarah@Clover Lane - Makes me feel better after adding one more leaky faucet to our list of things we need to fix. Old house charms make it worth all the projects…right? RIGHT?

Carrie Holler - Oh Megan, I feel for you. Same thing happened to us 1 month after we bought our 125 yr. old house. Only the way we found out is there was water running down the kitchen wall…

Kristen - Is it sad that I’m more freaked out about the GIANT spider in that picture than the corroded pipe?! 🙂

Michelle - We bought our OLD house last summer. . . and after a couple of months of pouring money in when we found our house’s ‘issues’ my hubby decided we should watch that movie– makes us feel better– at least our house isn’t THAT bad.

Janine - That house (the actual one used in the movie in Lattingtown, NY) went up for sale last year. I don’t know if anyone bought it but it was listed for 2.95 million! I love that movie.

Blanca - Eek! The spider is all I can think of. Sorry you’re having to replace the corroded pipes. Your house is still the best!

Becky @ Farmgirl Paints - Love that movie! They both totally crack me up. Even a new house is a money pit. I’m thinking renting is the way to go. Can’t wait to see your project.

Jill - Oh yeah, we’re currently renovating a 100 year old house and have found lots of goodies like that too…some of ours have included electrical wiring too, scary! Good luck!

Cheryl @ a pretty cool life. - That is too familiar. I love our built-in-1946 house, but I am NOT in love with 60 yr old plumbing. Money pit, indeed.

LouBoo - I am so with you – just said goodbye to a sewage tanker taking away thousands of gallons from our tank – for our very old house. We are not on mains drainage. Eekk…

Krista - Oh my gosh, it was bad enough that the pipe is corroded, then I read the comments about the spider–and I checked and there it is— gosh it’s huge!! Good luck, hopefully it doesn’t snowball into big problems and it will all work out OK!!

Jessica - One Shiny Star - Is that a dead bird on the right? Meh. Good luck!

Sara - That movie is awesome!
The pipe looks horrible, but much more frightening to me- the spider on the right…was your husband face to face with that horrible looking thing?!?!
Good Luck!